Re: "Elon Musk is aiming for SpaceX's Starship to reach Mars very soon"

On Mon, 9 Sep 2024 20:59:51 -0500, Lynn McGuire
<lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

On 9/9/2024 8:34 PM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:

On 9/9/2024 2:00 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

On 9/9/2024 3:24 PM, Ahasuerus wrote:

On 9/9/2024 4:09 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

"Elon Musk is aiming for SpaceX's Starship to reach Mars very soon"
    https://www.chron.com/culture/article/spacex-land-on-
mars-19752466.php
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“The SpaceX CEO said the rocket will land on Mars in two years.”
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“There's only a certain window every two years when Earth and Mars
are lined up and a journey to the Red Planet is efficient, and Elon
Musk is trying to send Starship out when that happens in 2026.”
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Bold.  Unmanned of course.
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Tickets will be going on sale fairly soon for the second trip.  I
suspect that it will be one way.

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I suppose it's also possible to miss Mars by an inch, fly around it
and return to Earth. It worked when flying to the Moon (at least for
the Baltimore Gun Club), so surely it will work with Mars...

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Got food for the return trip and a place to put human waste ?  Oxygen
and a way to get rid of the excess CO2 ?
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How were they going to handle that once they landed on Mars?

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Going there, I assume that they have a plan.  Coming back, I doubt it.
These type of trips tend to be one way.

I don't think we're in any position to make a colony on Mars that can
sustain itself for long enough for other people to get there

Just refueling the Starship
will be incredibly difficult at best.  I would guess some sort of CO2 +
H2O -> CH4 + O2 reactor.
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I have no idea what was on the Mayflower coming back to Europe but it
was not people other than the remaining crew who survived the winter.

Yes, but America was a place where you could grow/gather/hunt for food
and didn't need to produce oxygen

and Columbus, Cook etc would probably be better comparisons